LRD guides and handbook September 2014

Health and safety law 2014

Chapter 9

Unmeasured time

[ch 9: page 148]

The limits on working time in the 1998 Regulations do not apply to work whose duration “is not measured or predetermined or can be determined by the worker himself”. This exemption is designed to cover managing executives and others with autonomous decision-taking powers, as well as family workers and workers officiating at religious ceremonies.